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Characters of the Reformation

Author: Hilaire Belloc
Keywords: Belloc; Reformation; Catholic Church; History; Henry VIII; Queen Elizabeth; Mary Tudor; Descartes; Pascal; England
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Hilaire Belloc's celebrated book on the Reformation

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: brsean - - August 16, 2008
Subject: Belloc Rules! No Political Correctness here!
Possibly Belloc's greatest work. He is the perfect antidote to the "Whiggish" propaganda that pawns itself off as Western History, but is actually almost all a pack of lies.

"Once the battle was joined all his armoury was marshalled and flung into the fray. Dialectic, Scorn, Quip, Epigram, Sarcasm, Historical Evidence, Massive Argument, and Moral Teaching --of all these weapons he was a past master and each was mobilised and made to play its proper part in the attack. Yet he was a courteous and a chivalrous man. A deeply sensitive man, his was the kindest and most understanding nature I have ever known. In spite of a rollicking and bombastic side he was as incapable of the least cruelty as he was capable of the most delicate sympathy with other people's feelings. As he himself used to say of others in a curiously quiet and simple way, 'He is a good man. He will go to Heaven.'" (Belloc's friend, Lord Stanley of Alderley, describing his provocative personality in a preface to "The Cruise of the Nona.")

Reviewer: vidmonko - - August 8, 2008
Subject: Belloc tells it like it is, and with style.
There is only one Belloc, and this is a great work. Not too many history books are hard to put down like this one.

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